Spraying apparatus.



vW. G. R. BRAEMER. SPRAYING APPARATUS. APPLIoA'TIon FILED P11341, 1910.

963,354'. K Patented July'mmo.

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WILLIAM G-R. :BRAEMER or CAMDEN, NEW .IERsEY, AssIGNoR To WARREN WEBSTERl a COMPANY, .A CORPORATION or NEW JERSEY. y

SPRAYING APPARATUS.

Original application filed January 7, 1908, Serial No. 409,638. Dividedand this application filed February 11, 1910. serial No. 543,226.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. R. BRAEMER- a citizen of the -UnitedStates, and resident of the city of Camden, county of Camden, and vStateof 'New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Spraying Apparatus, ofwhich the following is a specificatjion.

My invention has reference to spraying apparatus and consists of certainimprovemerits which are fully set forth in the fob lowing" specificationand shown in the ac- `ompanymg drawings which form a part thereof.

This application is a division of my application Serial Number 4O9,638'filed January 7, 1908, and has for its object the provisionofqspraying'apparatus which may be ernployed for producing sheets ofWater such t i, My invention also comprehends details of construction,which, together with the features above specified will be betterunderstood by reference to the drawings, in whichz- Figure l is a sideelevation of the spray pipe with the hood in section, embodying myinvention; and Fig. 2 is a cross section of the same.

D is the spray .pipe into one end of which the water is delivered, andis provided with a series of oppfesitely directed apertures d preferablyslightly below the horizontal diameter, vas indicated in Fig. 2.Arranged over this pipe is a spraying shield or hood E which may haveirregular or corrugated shaped lower edges e to subdivide the w'ater, orother liquid. As shown in Fig. 2, the hood or shield Eis semi-clindrical at the top so as to snugly fitupon tie pipe D and said shieldextends outwardly from the pipe immediately above the apertures d, andthence curves downward and terminates in the free edges adjacent to theletter e, and said edges, may, if desired, be provided withcorrugations. The apertures may be made in lany suitable form.

, In the operation of my improved spraying device the liquid which isforced. into the pipe D -isprojected through the aperturescl,

at each side and impinges upon the under surfaces of the aprons E of theshield or hood E and by. which the fluid is spread, so that thesuccessive portions of the fluid projected along the length of the pipeD spread aterally upon the said apron portions of the shield or hood topractically meet and thereby form a thin layer of iiuid which falls fromthe lower edges in the form of spray. As these lower edges c ,of theaprons are substantially parallel to the length of the '.ppe, it isevident that the spray will be substantially in the form of a sheet.

While VI prefer, in practice, to employ two sets of the apertures d inthespray pipe and two aprons E for the hood or shield E, it is evidentthat only one of such sets of aperi tures and aprons may be employed forthe spraying pipes. It is also evident that .the corrugations c may beomitted if so desired.

:It will be further understood that while I have shown the shield orhood as tting snugly upon the top of vthe spray pipe D as a convenientand compact mode of construction, any other manner of 'associating theparts may be employed so long as the -spraying apertures d and theaprons E are arranged to coact in the manner above described.

The spray pipes D, While preferably made of ordinary iron pipeWith'holes drilled along its sides, may be made in any other manner solong as it acts as a conduit for the water or other Huid under pressureand provides lateral openings from one or both sides through which thewater or other fluid.

may be projected upon the apronsv of the hood or shield. I prefer tomake theshield of sheet metal, but it may be of cast metal or othermaterial if so desired. y

Having now described my lnventlon, what rI claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:

1'.' Spraying apparatus which consistsvof a pipe having lateralapertures, combined with an inclosing hood having downwardly extendingaprons against which the jets of Patented July 5, 1910.

-luid frorn the apertures in the 'pipe inipinge; said apronsterminatingin lower edges fromi.

which the water falls a thin spray sheet. 2*. Sp'raying apparatus whichconsists of a pipehavi'ng lateral apertures, combined with an inclosing-hood having downwardly' extending 'aprons 'against which the jets ofHuid from the apertures in the pipe impin'ge,-

4ksaid aprons terminating in lower corrugated edges from which the`waterfalls in a thin In a spraying apparatus, a 4pipe 'a series of sideapertures through` whichlthe .fiuidto be spread is forced,' combinedwith a downwardly extending plate surface .con\ stitutinganapron againstwhich the fluid'- itrom thev apertures ismade'to impinge and spread outinto a thinlilm, whereby the fluid-'is Vcaused to drop from' the loweredge 20 of tlie plateapron inathn spraysheet.'

4.5111 arspraying apparatus 4 a pipe having a series'ofsideapertur'esthrdugh which Vthe Huid to spreadisOrCed, combined withl a downwardlyextending plate surface consti tuting an apron the lower edge of whichis vcorrugated andagaist which apron the fluid rIOtD the apertures ismade to impinge and l sp'rad'.Tout-into af thin film, wherebyfthe -Juid-is caused .to -drop frornthe lower corthe film of water whereby itcaused to be spreadland sprayed in sheet-like form.

6. In` spraying apparatus,` a horizontal spray` pipe having a series ofapertures on each` sldecoxnbined with two downwardly extending apronsarranged upon opposite sides' of kthe pipe in the line ofitslaperturesand upon which-the fluid from the pipe is projected and spread 'intothin films, said I aprons having'free lower edges from which the'Huidfilm is projected in the form of `:sheets of'spray.rA

In testimony of'whi'ch inyention, I h ere-l 'unto setgmy-han y i* .l

Witnesses: n i i u GEO. WEs'mRFmLD,

J.WEsTERrmLD.

